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Primary students resolve conflicts with the support of their peers on the Bridge to Peace

Peacemakers K-3. Primary students resolve conflicts with the support of their peers on the Bridge to Peace. Yvette McBain and Kimberly Meyerson. Recess is over, are your students ready to learn?. Teaching Students to Get Along. Classroom Close-up NJ.

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Primary students resolve conflicts with the support of their peers on the Bridge to Peace

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  1. Peacemakers K-3 Primary students resolve conflicts with the support of their peers on the Bridge to Peace Yvette McBain and Kimberly Meyerson

  2. Recess is over, are your students ready to learn?

  3. Teaching Students to Get Along Classroom Close-up NJ

  4. The Bridge to Peace

  5. "Who Gets Training?" Teachers Administration Students Lunch Aides School Staff Parents "Everyone!"

  6. The First Day of School and every day … Model Active Listening • Make eye-contact. • Show you are listening. • Say what you heard.

  7. “Stop, we have a conflict! Let’s work it out”

  8. “Stop, I don’t like that.” Get help. http://www.safeatschool.ca

  9. Stop and Breathe

  10. The "I" Message Say what you want. I want because… Say how you feel. I feel …..

  11. "The Apology" I am sorry because… Next time I will… Will you forgive me?

  12. "Think of Three" "Choose One"

  13. Act on your Solution! WARNING! You will see an increase of Conflicts and use of the Bridge to Peace after training is complete. The students are using their new found skills. It should decrease over time.

  14. Peacemakers Go out in pairs. Rotate so each child in class gets a turn. Are easily identified on the schoolyard. Carry a coin or two colored counter and a card with Rules for the Bridge.

  15. The Role of Peacemakers Explain Rules for the Bridge Help Think of Solutions Include Others in Play Get Help from Adults

  16. The Peacemaker will flip a coin to see who speaks first. No name calling. Listen to each other. Work together to solve the problem. No student should be made to use the Bridge if they do not want to. Rules For The Bridge To Peace

  17. The Role of the Heart Club Grade 4-5 Peer Mediators The Heart Club goes to each classroom during D.E.A.R. time to see if there are conflicts that need to be resolved. They use The Bridge to Peace banners that are in each Hallway. The Heart Club helps first through third graders solve conflicts that they may want to solve privately without the classroom Peacemakers. They also mediate conflicts for their peers in fourth and fifth grade.

  18. Works Cited Canter, L., Petersen, K., & Lee Canter & Assoicates. (1995). Teaching students to get along: Classroom scenes. Santa Monica, CA: Lee Canter & Associates. Classroom Close-Up NJ. 2010. NJN Public Television. DVD. Jasmine, Julia. Conflict Resolution. Westminster: Teacher Created Materials, Inc., 2004. Print. Merrell, Kenneth W., Danielle M Parisi, and Sara A. Whitcomb. Strong Start. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2007. Print. soulshoppe.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. Yvette McBain yvette.mcbain@pequannock.org Kimberly Meyerson kimberly.meyerson@pequannock.org

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